Document Management built a vendor risk questionnaire

“Git is basically a backup.”— Marketing Manager

Reason:

Honestly? Because the API documentation says "ask Nadia". With a logo generated at 23:12.

Built by:

Daniel, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

GraphQL, for three fields

Database:

a Postgres database called test containing 4 years of production data

Authentication:

the token expiration date is optional

Deployment:

deployed from the main branch because branches were confusing

Responsible:

Lukas, because they clicked "create project" first

Documentation:

a Slack message saying "I'll document this later"

Security situation:

the database is reachable from the public internet

Future disaster:

It will discover its own timezone policy in production.

Age: 8.5 years · originally expected to last 14 days · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 420 days ago

Rated common mostly because: alive 221x longer than intended, older than the department using it, 1 users.